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July 5, 2017 7:06 a.m. ET

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A Pivotal Test

The crisis on the Korean peninsula seems to be escalating to levels not seen in decades. The top American military commander in South Korea said Wednesday that the U.S. and Seoul are prepared to go to war with North Korea if given the order, after the North’s launch Tuesday of its first missile capable of reaching the continental U.S. threatened to shift the strategic balance in the Pacific. Gen. Vincent Brooks’s statement followed a joint exercise in which the U.S. and South Korea, answering...